Chapter 19 Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.” Henry the VIII
“With his small hands, Lucas reached up and covered his ears. Then, his voice, quiet at first, began to sing, “I am Enery the Eighth I am, Enery the Eighth I am I am …” ”
Brainiac “Why are we even trying to figure this out? Hello. Dad is a brainiac, for cripes’ sake. I mean, despite everything, he’s still way smarter than you, Eli. Can’t we wait for him to get better and just tell us the code?”
Bunsen burner
“Dad let out a loud ragged sigh. “You try to do everything for your family, and what do they do in return?”
I sensed it was a rhetorical question.
“They try and poison you.” He picked up a Bunsen burner and slammed it on the floor for effect. ”
Test Tubes and Petri Dishes “I gave you everything. Everything …” He started picking up anything in his reach and hurled each item as he spoke. “Everything.” A tray of test tubes hit the ground. “Everything.” A pile of petri dishes hit the near wall, glass flying. “Everything.” invisible ink “Dad gave us invisible ink and we wrote secret messages. But that was from a kit I didn’t have anymore.” Mouth Watered “Turducken.” Lexie spoke up. “Didn’t we have that for Christmas one year?”
Literary Devices “If I was ever going to prove I wasn’t just out for myself, I needed to start somewhere.”
“For the next hour, I sequestered myself in Dad’s office and looked through everything I could find in the papers, books, CDs. Even some of the National Geographies. Nothing struck a chord. I gave up. Had to. I was driving myself crazy.”
“In the lab, I scanned the shelves of chemicals, hoping something would ring a bell. It had to be something simple, everyday, right?”
Chapter 19
Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Henry the VIII
“With his small hands, Lucas reached up and covered his ears. Then, his voice, quiet at first, began to sing, “I am Enery the Eighth I am, Enery the Eighth I am I am …” ”
Brainiac
“Why are we even trying to figure this out? Hello. Dad is a brainiac, for cripes’ sake. I mean, despite everything, he’s still way smarter than you, Eli. Can’t we wait for him to get better and just tell us the code?”
Bunsen burner
I sensed it was a rhetorical question.
“They try and poison you.” He picked up a Bunsen burner and slammed it on the floor for effect. ”
“I gave you everything. Everything …” He started picking up anything in his reach and hurled each item as he spoke. “Everything.”
A tray of test tubes hit the ground. “Everything.” A pile of petri dishes hit the near wall, glass flying. “Everything.”
invisible ink
“Dad gave us invisible ink and we wrote secret messages. But that was from a kit I didn’t have anymore.”
Mouth Watered
“Turducken.” Lexie spoke up. “Didn’t we have that for Christmas one year?”
“Yeah, it was great.” My mouth watered.”
Vocabulary and Concepts
sequestered **ammoniapredictabilityregressedskeptical
Literary Devices
“If I was ever going to prove I wasn’t just out for myself, I needed to start somewhere.”
“For the next hour, I sequestered myself in Dad’s office and looked through everything I could find in the papers, books, CDs. Even some of the National Geographies. Nothing struck a chord. I gave up. Had to. I was driving myself crazy.”
“In the lab, I scanned the shelves of chemicals, hoping something would ring a bell. It had to be something simple, everyday, right?”